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Well, the time that the captains were to fall upon the Diabolonians
being come, they eagerly prepared themselves for action; for
Captain Credence had told the captains over night, that they should
meet their Prince in the field to-morrow. This, therefore, made
them yet far more desirous to be engaging the enemy; for 'You shall
see the Prince in the field to-morrow' was like oil to a flaming
fire, for of a long time they had been at a distance: they
therefore were for this the more earnest and desirous of the work.
So, as I said, the hour being come, Captain Credence, with the rest
of the men of war, drew out their forces before it was day by the
sally-port of the town. And, being all ready, Captain Credence
went up to the head of the army, and gave to the rest of the
captains the word, and so they to their under-officers and
soldiers: the word was 'The sword of the Prince Emmanuel, and the
shield of Captain Credence;' which is, in the Mansoulian tongue,
'The word of God and faith.' Then the captains fell on, and began
roundly to front, and flank, and rear Diabolus's camp.

Now, they left Captain Experience in the town, because he was yet
ill of his wounds, which the Diabolonians had given him in the last
fight. But when he perceived that the captains were at it, what
does he but, calling for his crutches with haste, gets up, and away
he goes to the battle, saying, 'Shall I lie here, when my brethren
are in the fight, and when Emmanuel, the Prince, will show himself
in the field to his servants?' But when the enemy saw the man come
with his crutches, they were daunted yet the more; 'for,' thought
they, 'what spirit has possessed these Mansoulians, that they fight
us upon their crutches?' Well, the captains, as I said, fell on,
and did bravely handle their weapons, still crying out and
shouting, as they laid on blows, 'The sword of the Prince Emmanuel,
and the shield of Captain Credence!'

Now, when Diabolus saw that the captains were come out, and that so
valiantly they surrounded his men, he concluded that, for the
present, nothing from them was to be looked for but blows, and the
dints of their 'two-edged sword.'

Wherefore he also falls on upon the Prince's army with all his
deadly force: so the battle was joined. Now who was it that at
first Diabolus met with in the fight, but Captain Credence on the
one hand, and the Lord Willbewill on the other: now Willbewill's
blows were like the blows of a giant, for that man had a strong
arm, and he fell in upon the election doubters, for they were the
life-guard of Diabolus, and he kept them in play a good while,
cutting and battering shrewdly. Now when Captain Credence saw my
lord engaged, he did stoutly fall on, on the other hand, upon the
same company also; so they put them to great disorder. Now Captain
Good-Hope had engaged the vocation doubters, and they were sturdy
men; but the captain was a valiant man: Captain Experience did
also send him some aid; so he made the vocation doubters to
retreat. The rest of the armies were hotly engaged, and that on
every side, and the Diabolonians did fight stoutly. Then did my
Lord Secretary command that the slings from the castle should be
played; and his men could throw stones at an hair's breadth. But,
after a while, those that were made to fly before the captains of
the Prince, did begin to rally again, and they came up stoutly upon
the rear of the Prince's army: wherefore the Prince's army began
to faint; but, remembering that they should see the face of their
Prince by-and-by, they took courage, and a very fierce battle was
fought. Then shouted the captains, saying, 'The sword of the
Prince Emmanuel, and the shield of Captain Credence!' and with that
Diabolus gave back, thinking that more aid had been come. But no
Emmanuel as yet appeared. Moreover, the battle did hang in doubt;
and they made a little retreat on both sides. Now, in the time of
respite, Captain Credence bravely encouraged his men to stand to
it; and Diabolus did the like, as well as he could. But Captain
Credence made a brave speech to his soldiers, the contents whereof
here follow:-

'Gentlemen soldiers, and my brethren in this design, it rejoiceth
me much to see in the field for our Prince, this day, so stout and
so valiant an army, and such faithful lovers of Mansoul. You have
hitherto, as hath become you, shown yourselves men of truth and
courage against the Diabolonian forces; so that, for all their
boast, they have not yet much cause to boast of their gettings.
Now take to yourselves your wonted courage, and show yourselves men
even this once only; for in a few minutes after the next
engagement, this time, you shall see your Prince show himself in
the field; for we must make this second assault upon this tyrant
Diabolus, and then Emmanuel comes.'

No sooner had the captain made this speech to his soldiers, but one
Mr. Speedy came post to the captain from the Prince, to tell him
that Emmanuel was at hand. This news when the captain had
received, he communicated to the other field-officers, and they
again to their soldiers and men of war. Wherefore, like men raised
from the dead, so the captains and their men arose, made up to the
enemy, and cried as before, 'The sword of the Prince Emmanuel, and
the shield of Captain Credence!'

The Diabolonians also bestirred themselves, and made resistance as
well as they could; but in this last engagement the Diabolonians
lost their courage, and many of the doubters fell down dead to the
ground. Now, when they had been in heat of battle about an hour or
more, Captain Credence lift up his eyes and saw, and, behold,
Emmanuel came; and he came with colours flying, trumpets sounding,
and the feet of his men scarce touched the ground, they hasted with
that celerity towards the captains that were engaged. Then did
Credence wind with his men to the townward, and gave to Diabolus
the field: so Emmanuel came upon him on the one side, and the
enemies' place was betwixt them both. Then again they fell to it
afresh; and now it was but a little while more but Emmanuel and
Captain Credence met, still trampling down the slain as they came.

But when the captains saw that the Prince was come, and that he
fell upon the Diabolonians on the other side, and that Captain
Credence and his Highness had got them up betwixt them, they
shouted, (they so shouted that the ground rent again,) saying, 'The
sword of Emmanuel, and the shield of Captain Credence!' Now, when
Diabolus saw that he and his forces were so hard beset by the
Prince and his princely army, what does he, and the lords of the
pit that were with him, but make their escape, and forsake their
army, and leave them to fall by the hand of Emmanuel, and of his
noble Captain Credence: so they fell all down slain before them,
before the Prince, and before his royal army; there was not left so
much as one doubter alive; they lay spread upon the ground dead
men, as one would spread dung upon the land.

When the battle was over, all things came into order in the camp.
Then the captains and elders of Mansoul came together to salute
Emmanuel, while without the corporation: so they saluted him, and
welcomed him, and that with a thousand welcomes, for that he was
come to the borders of Mansoul again. So he smiled upon them, and
said, 'Peace be to you.' Then they addressed themselves to go to
the town; they went then to go up to Mansoul, they, the Prince,
with all the new forces that now he had brought with him to the
war. Also all the gates of the town were set open for his
reception, so glad were they of his blessed return. And this was
the manner and order of this going of his into Mansoul:

First. As I said, all the gates of the town were set open, yea,
the gates of the castle also; the elders, too, of the town of
Mansoul placed themselves at the gates of the town, to salute him
at his entrance thither: and so they did; for, as he drew near,
and approached towards the gates, they said, 'Lift up your heads, O
ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of
glory shall come in.' And they answered again, 'Who is the King of
glory?' and they made return to themselves, 'The Lord, strong and
mighty; the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates;
even lift them up, ye everlasting doors,' etc.

Secondly. It was ordered also, by those of Mansoul, that all the
way from the town gates to those of the castle, his blessed Majesty
should be entertained with the song, by them that had the best
skill in music in all the town of Mansoul: then did the elders,
and the rest of the men of Mansoul, answer one another as Emmanuel
entered the town, till he came at the castle gates, with songs and
sound of trumpets, saying, 'They have seen thy goings, O God; even
the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary. So the singers
went before, the players on instruments followed after, and among
them were the damsels playing on timbrels.'

Thirdly. Then the captains, (for I would speak a word of them,)
they in their order waited on the Prince, as he entered into the
gates of Mansoul. Captain Credence went before, and Captain Good-
Hope with him; Captain Charity came behind with other of his
companions, and Captain Patience followed after all; and the rest
of the captains, some on the right hand, and some on the left,
accompanied Emmanuel into Mansoul. And all the while the colours
were displayed, the trumpets sounded, and continual shoutings were
among the soldiers. The Prince himself rode into the town in his
armour, which was all of beaten gold, and in his chariot--the
pillars of it were of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the
covering of it was of purple, the midst thereof being paved with
love for the daughters of the town of Mansoul.

Fourthly. When the Prince was come to the entrance of Mansoul, he
found all the streets strewed with lilies and flowers, curiously
decked with boughs and branches from the green trees that stood
round about the town. Every door also was filled with persons, who
had adorned every one their fore-part against their house with
something of variety and singular excellency, to entertain him
withal as he passed in the streets: they also themselves, as
Emmanuel passed by, did welcome him with shouts and acclamations of
joy, saying, 'Blessed be the Prince that cometh in the name of his
Father Shaddai.'

Fifthly. At the castle gates the elders of Mansoul, namely, the
Lord Mayor, the Lord Willbewill, the subordinate preacher, Mr.
Knowledge, and Mr. Mind, with other of the gentry of the place,
saluted Emmanuel again. They bowed before him, they kissed the
dust of his feet, they thanked, they blessed, and praised his
Highness for not taking advantage against them for their sins, but
rather had pity upon them in their misery, and returned to them
with mercies, and to build up their Mansoul for ever. Thus was he
had up straightway to the castle; for that was the royal palace,
and the place where his honour was to dwell; the which was ready
prepared for his Highness by the presence of the Lord Secretary,
and the work of Captain Credence. So he entered in.

Sixthly. Then the people and commonalty of the town of Mansoul
came to him into the castle to mourn, and to weep, and to lament
for their wickedness, by which they had forced him out of the town.
So when they were come, bowed themselves to the ground seven times;
they also wept, they wept aloud, and asked forgiveness of the
Prince, and prayed that he would again, as of old, confirm his love
to Mansoul.

To the which the great Prince replied, 'Weep not, but go your way,
eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to them for
whom nought is prepared; for the joy of your Lord is your strength.
I am returned to Mansoul with mercies, and my name shall be set up,
exalted, and magnified by it.' He also took these inhabitants, and
kissed them, and laid them in his bosom.

Moreover, he gave to the elders of Mansoul, and to each town
officer, a chain of gold and a signet. He also sent to their wives
earrings and jewels, and bracelets, and other things. He also
bestowed upon the true-born children of Mansoul many precious
things.

When Emmanuel, the Prince, had done all these things for the famous
town of Mansoul, then he said unto them, first, 'Wash your
garments, then put on your ornaments, and then come to me into the
castle of Mansoul.' So they went to the fountain that was set open
for Judah and Jerusalem to wash in; and there they washed, and
there they made their 'garments white,' and came again to the
Prince into the castle, and thus they stood before him.

And now there was music and dancing throughout the whole town of
Mansoul, and that because their Prince had again granted to them
his presence and the light of his countenance; the bells also did
ring, and the sun shone comfortably upon them for a great while
together.

The town of Mansoul did also now more thoroughly seek the
destruction and ruin of all remaining Diabolonians that abode in
the walls, and the dens that they had in the town of Mansoul; for
there was of them that had, to this day, escaped with life and limb
from the hand of their suppressors in the famous town of Mansoul.

But my Lord Willbewill was a greater terror to them now than ever
he had been before; forasmuch as his heart was yet more fully bent
to seek, contrive, and pursue them to the death; he pursued them
night and day, and did put them now to sore distress, as will
afterwards appear.

After things were thus far put into order in the famous town of
Mansoul, care was taken, and order given by the blessed Prince
Emmanuel, that the townsmen should, without further delay, appoint
some to go forth into the plain to bury the dead that were there,--
the dead that fell by the sword of Emmanuel, and by the shield of
the Captain Credence,--lest the fumes and ill savours that would
arise from them might infect the air, and so annoy the famous town
of Mansoul. This also was a reason of this order, namely, that, as
much as in Mansoul lay, they might cut off the name, and being, and
remembrance of those enemies from the thought of the famous town of
Mansoul and its inhabitants.

So order was given out by the Lord Mayor, that wise and trusty
friend of the town of Mansoul, that persons should be employed
about this necessary business; and Mr. Godly-Fear, and one Mr.
Upright, were to be overseers about this matter: so persons were
put under them to work in the fields, and to bury the slain that
lay dead in the plains. And these were their places of employment:
some were to make the graves, some to bury the dead, and some were
to go to and fro in the plains, and also round about the borders of
Mansoul, to see if a skull, or a bone, or a piece of a bone of a
doubter, was yet to be found above ground anywhere near the
corporation; and if any were found, it was ordered, that the
searchers that searched should set up a mark thereby, and a sign,
that those that were appointed to bury them might find it, and bury
it out of sight, that the name and remembrance of a Diabolonian
doubter might be blotted out from under heaven; and that the
children, and they that were to be born in Mansoul, might not know,
if possible, what a skull, what a bone, or a piece of a bone of a
doubter was. So the buriers, and those that were appointed for
that purpose, did as they were commanded: they buried the
doubters, and all the skulls and bones, and pieces of bones of
doubters, wherever they found them; and so they cleansed the
plains. Now also Mr. God's-Peace took up his commission, and acted
again as in former days.

Thus they buried in the plains about Mansoul the election doubters,
the vocation doubters, the grace doubters, the perseverance
doubters, the resurrection doubters, the salvation doubters, and
the glory doubters; whose captains were Captain Rage, Captain
Cruel, Captain Damnation, Captain Insatiable, Captain Brimstone,
Captain Torment, Captain No-Ease, Captain Sepulchre, and Captain
Past-Hope; and old Incredulity was, under Diabolus, their general.
There were also the seven heads of their army; and they were the
Lord Beelzebub, the Lord Lucifer, the Lord Legion, the Lord
Apollyon, the Lord Python, the Lord Cerberus, and the Lord Belial.
But the princes and the captains, with old Incredulity, their
general, did all of them make their escape: so their men fell down
slain by the power of the Prince's forces, and by the hands of the
men of the town of Mansoul. They also were buried as is afore
related, to the exceeding great joy of the now famous town of
Mansoul. They that buried them buried also with them their arms,
which were cruel instruments of death: (their weapons were arrows,
darts, mauls, firebrands, and the like). They buried also their
armour, their colours, banners, with the standard of Diabolus, and
what else soever they could find that did but smell of a
Diabolonian doubter.

Now when the tyrant had arrived at Hell-Gate Hill, with his old
friend Incredulity, they immediately descended the den, and having
there with their fellows for a while condoled their misfortune and
great loss that they sustained against the town of Mansoul, they
fell at length into a passion, and revenged they would be for the
loss that they sustained before the town of Mansoul. Wherefore
they presently call a council to contrive yet further what was to
be done against the famous town of Mansoul; for their yawning
paunches could not wait to see the result of their Lord Lucifer's
and their Lord Apollyon's counsel that they had given before; for
their raging gorge thought every day, even as long as a short for
ever, until they were filled with the body and soul, with the flesh
and bones, and with all the delicates of Mansoul. They therefore
resolve to make another attempt upon the town of Mansoul, and that
by an army mixed and made up partly of doubters, and partly of
blood-men. A more particular account now take of both.

The doubters are such as have their name from their nature, as well
as from the land and kingdom where they are born: their nature is
to put a question upon every one of the truths of Emmanuel; and
their country is called the land of Doubting, and that land lieth
off, and farthest remote to the north, between the land of Darkness
and that called the 'valley of the shadow of death.' For though
the land of Darkness, and that called 'the valley of the shadow of
death,' be sometimes called as if they were one and the self-same
place, yet indeed they are two, lying but a little way asunder, and
the land of Doubting points in, and lieth between them. This is
the land of Doubting; and these that came with Diabolus to ruin the
town of Mansoul are the natives of that country.

The blood-men are a people that have their name derived from the
malignity of their nature, and from the fury that is in them to
execute it upon the town of Mansoul: their land lieth under the
dog-star, and by that they are governed as to their intellectuals.
The name of their country is the province of Loath-good: the
remote parts of it are far distant from the land of Doubting, yet
they do both butt and bound upon the hill called Hell-Gate Hill.
These people are always in league with the doubters, for they
jointly do make question of the faith and fidelity of the men of
the town of Mansoul, and so are both alike qualified for the
service of their prince.

Now of these two countries did Diabolus, by the beating of his
drum, raise another army against the town of Mansoul, of five-and-
twenty thousand strong. There were ten thousand doubters, and
fifteen thousand blood-men, and they were put under several
captains for the war; and old Incredulity was again made general of
the army.

As for the doubters, their captains were five of the seven that
were heads of the last Diabolonian army, and these are their names:
Captain Beelzebub, Captain Lucifer, Captain Apollyon, Captain
Legion, and Captain Cerberus; and the captains that they had before
were some of them made lieutenants, and some ensigns of the army.

But Diabolus did not count that, in this expedition of his, these
doubters would prove his principal men, for their manhood had been
tried before; also the Mansoulians had put them to the worst: only
he did bring them to multiply a number, and to help, if need was,
at a pinch. But his trust he put in his blood-men, for that they
were all rugged villains, and he knew that they had done feats
heretofore.

As for the blood-men, they also were under command and the names of
their captains were, Captain Cain, Captain Nimrod, Captain Ishmael,
Captain Esau, Captain Saul, Captain Absalom, Captain Judas, and
Captain Pope.

1. Captain Cain was over two bands, namely, the zealous and the
angry blood-men: his standard-bearer bare the red colours, and his
scutcheon was the murdering club.

2. Captain Nimrod was captain over two bands, namely, the
tyrannical and encroaching blood-men: his standard-bearer bare the
red colours, and his scutcheon was the great bloodhound.

3. Captain Ishmael was captain over two bands, namely, the mocking
and scorning blood-men: his standard-bearer bare the red colours,
and his scutcheon was one mocking at Abraham's Isaac.

4. Captain Esau was captain over two bands, namely, the blood-men
that grudged that another should have the blessing; also over the
blood-men that are for executing their private revenge upon others:
his standard-bearer bare the red colours, and his scutcheon was one
privately lurking to murder Jacob.

5. Captain Saul was captain over two bands, namely, the
groundlessly jealous and the devilishly furious blood-men: his
standard-bearer bare the red colours, and his scutcheon was three
bloody darts cast at harmless David.

6. Captain Absalom was captain over two bands, namely, over the
blood-men that will kill a father or a friend for the glory of this
world; also over those blood-men that will hold one fair in hand
with words, till they shall have pierced him with their swords:
his standard-bearer did bear the red colours, and his scutcheon was
the son pursuing the father's blood.

7. Captain Judas was over two bands, namely, the blood-men that
will sell a man's life for money, and those also that will betray
their friend with a kiss: his standard-bearer bare the red
colours, and his scutcheon was thirty pieces of silver and the
halter.

8. Captain Pope was captain over one band, for all these spirits
are joined in one under him: his standard-bearer bare the red
colours, and his scutcheon was the stake, the flame, and the good
man in it.

Now, the reason why Diabolus did so soon rally another force, after
he had been beaten out of the field, was, for that he put mighty
confidence in this army of blood-men; for he put a great deal of
more trust in them than he did before in his army of doubters;
though they had also often done great service for him in the
strengthening of him in his kingdom. But these blood-men, he had
proved them often, and their sword did seldom return empty.
Besides, he knew that these, like mastiffs, would fasten upon any;
upon father, mother, brother, sister, prince, or governor, yea upon
the Prince of princes. And that which encouraged him the more was,
for that they once did force Emmanuel out of the kingdom of
Universe; 'And why,' thought he, 'may they not also drive him from
the town of Mansoul?'

So this army of five-and-twenty thousand strong was, by their
general, the great Lord Incredulity, led up against the town of
Mansoul. Now Mr. Prywell, the scoutmaster-general, did himself go
out to spy, and he did bring Mansoul tidings of their coming.
Wherefore they shut up their gates, and put themselves in a posture
of defence against these new Diabolonians that came up against the
town.

So Diabolus brought up his army, and beleaguered the town of
Mansoul; the doubters were placed about Feel-gate, and the blood-
men set down before Eye-gate and Ear-gate.

Now when this army had thus encamped themselves, Incredulity did,
in the name of Diabolus, his own name, and in the name of the
blood-men and the rest that were with him, send a summons as hot as
a red-hot iron to Mansoul, to yield to their demands; threatening,
that if they still stood it out against them, they would presently
burn down Mansoul with fire. For you must know that, as for the
blood-men, they were not so much that Mansoul should be
surrendered, as that Mansoul should be destroyed, and cut off out
of the land of the living. True, they send to them to surrender;
but should they so do, that would not stench or quench the thirsts
of these men. They must have blood, the blood of Mansoul, else
they die; and it is from hence that they have their name.
Wherefore these blood-men he reserved while now that they might,
when all his engines proved ineffectual, as his last and sure card
be played against the town of Mansoul.

Now, when the townsmen had received this red-hot summons, it begat
in them at present some changing and interchanging thoughts; but
they jointly agreed, in less than half an hour, to carry the
summons to the Prince, the which they did when they had writ at the
bottom of it, 'Lord, save Mansoul from bloody men!'